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title: “It is really pleasant enough,” said he: “the whole day long I sit i… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is really pleasant enough,” said he: “the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.” Who acts: poetry, doubt, I, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fai
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 92

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“It is really pleasant enough,” said he: “the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.”

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**Who acts:** poetry, doubt, I, one, my · **What happens:** be, say, sit, fly, write, dream · **To what, where:** driest law papers, office amid, dream, pretty comedy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poetry, doubt, I, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:8:92
# text = “It is really pleasant enough,” said he: “the whole day long I sit in the office amid the driest law-papers, and at night I fly in my dream as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg; one might really write a very pretty comedy upon it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	really	really	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	very	very	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | poetry |  |  |  |  | enough, pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | doubt | the driest law papers |  | the office amid | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in amid=Location |
| 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | my dream | night | as a lark in the gardens of Fredericksburg | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in dream=Location |
| 5 | **write** *in a quote* | might | one | a pretty comedy |  |  |  | upon poetry | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comedy=Theme |
| 6 | **dream** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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